Brooklyn Fashion Gallery, our sister site focuses on part or the whole of their body of work, paying attention to past  collections techniques and emergent conceptualizations! At Brooklyn Fashion Week  we focuses on Trade platforms for current and Seasonal lines!  Both explore the digital space as alternate or extended. Both are path of theTibiatech family.

Photographer Colyn Thompson, Knitwear design By Michi 2005 Brooklyn

We have an open call out  at www.BrooklynFashionGallery.com, for designers crafters and artisans to  submit their work to  Brooklyn Fashion Gallery! Work should showcase unusual craftsmanship and made available in an appropriate digital media format. Please submit your name email an a link to an online sample of your work below. or check our  Call for submissions guidelines

We're excited for #IWNY Ususlly it's technologist or retailers speaking on Fashion Tech.  This year for www.Internetweekny we're curating BADASSE 3.0- Eight Days- Eight Designers speak on How technology is redefining Space, Access, Consumers, Marketing and Sales via http://www.modekompas.com/whos-a-badasse/

B.A.D.A.S.S.E IS an acronym for Business, Art, Design, Apparel, Sustainability, Styling and “Ein’-dustrial careers. It covers the Creative Industries with a viewpoint of creating companies that employ our communities.

We’ve heard from many “Techies” about  how their apps work for “Makers” … But what About Makers? How do they feel about the technology? How is it affecting or changing their art their craft and their business. We’ll use telepresence Technology to hear from Fashion Designers across the world who  now connect daily, in an  unprecedented mannner!

SEE SCHEDULE RSVP  for online Presentations @ www.modekompas.com (bottom of page) and get tickets to our Breakfast or Donate to support a Creative tech coworking space at

BADASSE 3.0 Makers Talk Tech- Steps to getting “it” into the hands of your customer!

• BADASSE 3.0 Makers Talk Tech- Steps to getting “it” into the hands of your customer!

May 20^th 8-11 am EST

Makers Talk Tech- Steps to getting “it”… into the hands of your customer!

A discussion on successful technology strategies and tools for the creative industries!

A fundraiser for TibiaeTech’s Creative  Coworking Space…

• BADASSE 3.0- Successfully leveraging local deal sites!

May 21st 2-4pm  EST

Wanda Bruno -

Successfully leveraging local deal sites! – From couture designer to couture design school…  !

• BADASSE 3.0- Social Greatness- Transitioning from Employee to Independent Entrepreneur

May 22nd 9-11pm EST

Social- Greatness Transitioning from employee to Independent Entrepreneur-

Louis Narcisse  CEO and Head Designer Pharaonic Brand Designs

• BADASSE 3.0 – A Virtual FIT Strategy that works!‘
• May 23rd 6-8pm  ESTA Virtual FIT Strategy that works!Therez Fleetwood
• BADASSE 3.0- Social Commerce

May 24th Time TBDRobert Anthony Young  Trinidad and Tobago

• BADASSE 3.0- Clean technology, Green Business & Vertical production and – From New York With Love!

May 25th 12-2pm EST

Clean technology,  Green Business & Vertical production and  – From New York With Love!

Jonathan Adewume

• BADASSE 3.0 Adventures in Technology while crossing the Atlantic
• May 23rd 6-8pm  ESTA Virtual FIT Strategy that works!Therez Fleetwood- Theres Fleet wood
• BADASSE 3.0 -The world is your boutique -From Paris with love

May 26 pm EST

The world is your boutique… From Paris with love

Mike Sylla –Baifal Dreams  Paris

• BADASSE 3.0- Fashion Tourism and the Shifting Tides in Local fashion!

May 27th 8-10pm EST

Fashion Tourism and the Shifting tides in Local fashion!

Esther Joseph –

Global Access

This question  came to us ... recently...

" I was contacted by Brooklyn Fashion Weekend. Is this run by the same people who to run  Brooklyn Fashion
Week?

Thanks...I am a designer."

Below is the conversation that ensued! It's a quetion we always get and we diplomatically answer...

Or when is brooklyn Fashion Week?

I can tell from many of the pitches  that the  applicants are NOT ready...  I cannot submit the queries on a business level! There is a Fascination wwith "doing  a Fashion Week". Many are in fact surprised that I ask  why do you want to do  a fashion week?

BROOKLYN FSHION WEEK IS ABOUT BUILDING  A SECTOR...  simple

This Morning an article in Huffington Post  " Joah Spearman: Fashion Weeks and Trade Shows: The Has-Beens of the Fashion Industry? http://j.mp/mQmRjh' came across my  desk.  Later I listened a designer aftre  designer complained...

The fact is we need to show ... somehow designers believe the  "SHOW" will be a miracle solution, when it is merely the start of a process!  Should I do a fashion week... I answered that question for Top Stitches magazine, while at the same time working with local designers towards a viable solution!

Designer:- Recently I was contacted by Brooklyn Fashion Weekend. Is this run by the same people who to Brooklyn Fashion Week?

Thanks,

I am a designer.

BFW (www.brooklynfashionweek.com):-No Brooklyn Fashion Week is run by designers we secured the name as an open  format with the intention of ensuring all designers had access to the use of the name in 2004/5. We subsequently explored format/s has served or serves the interest of independent designers! We do not  believe as designers that the traditional fashion week is working… The Name was secured to leverage the  brand potential for independents!

At the same time many independent designers are NOT positioned to leverage their creative collateral challenges we identified!

So we have thus far concentrated one on one events with a few designers We now have a program and solutions that  address some of the core issues we identified! Our focus i s quality and BUSINESS of FASHION! We are determined to explore business development, Product  development

branding etc  and to sell on merit  rather than hype or celebrity!

I will not comment on other “fashion week’, save to say that there are four Brooklyn  events I know of www.Williamsburgfashionweekend.com has always contacted and informed us of their events and we share their info with designers!

Designers are the only ones who can decide if they are ready!

I simply ask the following …

I was recently  sent the  info on a Global Fashion Production seminar... I responded and the following is a discourse with the  Individual who  pulled this seminar together!

I practice an Open Business Model and believe designers should select  what they  attend;- See ad and link at  bottom of seminar! My response is in Green hers is in lilac!

This was one of the more honest discourses on  fashion I've seen and I enjoyed the debate... 

Please weigh in  at our Brooklyn Fashion Week Google Group! (Yes I  will give my opinion if you send stuff to my inbox... be warned!)